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The official languages of Somalia are Somali and Arabic as specified in the constitution. [2] [3] Somali, the endoglossic language of Somalia, is the most widely spoken language in the country, [4] with Northern Standard Somali as the most widely spoken dialect of the language, at around 60% of the population, followed by Maay Somali at 20% and Benadiri Somali at 18%.
Arabic is a language cluster comprising 30 or so modern varieties. [1] Arabic is the lingua franca of people who live in countries of the Arab world as well as of Arabs who live in the diaspora, particularly in Latin America (especially Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile and Colombia) or Western Europe (like France, Spain, Germany or Italy).
Somalia and China later signed their first official trade agreement in June 1963. [130] During the Cold War period, the Somali government maintained active relations with its Chinese counterpart. The Somali authorities campaigned for an end to China's diplomatic isolation and supported instead its entry into the United Nations. [131]
The Somali diaspora or Qurbajoogta refers to Somalis who were born in Greater Somalia and reside in areas of the world that they were not born in. The civil war in Somalia greatly increased the size of the Somali diaspora, as many Somalis moved from Greater Somalia primarily to Europe, North America, Oceania and South Africa.
When the Somali government collapsed in 1991, Algeria contributed peacekeepers to UNOSOM II, the second phase of the United Nations Operation in Somalia. Currently, relations are very warm between the two African nations as Algeria and Somalia maintains fraternal relations and affirms support for one another. [6] [7] [8]
Trump said the hit, less than two weeks into his term, had targeted a senior IS attack planner and other militants in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland and had "destroyed the caves they ...
Arab presence in Europe predates Islam, and became predominant during the eras of the Roman and Byzantine Empire.The Romans conquered the Nabatean Kingdom in the Southern Levant, and named the province Arabia Petraea, and led a failed invasion of Yemen and South Arabia and what they called Arabia Felix or "Happy Arabia".
The Somali Democratic Republic (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Dimuqraadiga Soomaaliyeed; Arabic: الجمهورية الديمقراطية الصومالية (al-Jumhūriyyah ad-Dīmuqrāṭiyyah aṣ-Ṣūmāliyyah), Italian: Democratica Somala) was a socialist state in Somalia that existed from 1969 to 1991.